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Double Standards?
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Gavin Hamilton's latest piece can be found here.
Please post your comments here.
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Re: Double Standards?
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This comes as no suprise to me. For years I have questioned the integrity and need for FIFA and Blatter's recent comments have done nothing to dwell my growing hatred of his reign. He no longer - same as Platini - has the game's best interest at heart and continues to follow down the line of dictatorship. Their growing displeasure of anything English or Premiership related is quickly shot down and critisised. The trouble at the Euro's, if that were English fan's, threats of expulsions from future competitions would be issued, the rug grows higher and higher. I'm sure that this won't be the last case involving Brazilians playing in developing leagues around the world, nor will it be the last time Blatter adds to the rug's height. I've always beleived that sport and politics shouldn't mix, today, at the highest level, it's more important than the sport. Role on SA 2010, Blatter's last stand!
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Rogorn
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15/07/2008 19:20
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Re: Double Standards?
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Though Emerson has been banned by FIFA, an appeal by the Iraqis to get the March 26 result overturned was rejected on the grounds that all appeals must be submitted within a designated time limit, which had elapsed. Awarding the three points to Iraq would have sent them through to the next round of qualifiers at the expense of Qatar. Instead, Iraq's football future has been destroyed on spurious technical grounds.
Deadlines are not 'spurious technical grounds', otherwise Justice would never have any kind of closure at all. Nor is FIFA's fault, or Qatar's, that while England can live with missing tournaments, Iraq choose not to.
Having said this, FIFA would do well to carry out their own monitoring of passport and identity switchers, and penalise both individuals and FAs when caught out. However, be careful when doing this: lying about one's age or identity is cheating, and a crime. Naturalising someone is not, and a country can naturalise anyone they please, because that's part of their sovereign right. Let's get the issues sorted out first.
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Re: Double Standards?
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This looked like an interesting topic -sadly I cant read the text --it is so small
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